Comments on: ATTN: White-paper authors

By: Valessio Brito

Valessio Brito — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 23:16:52 +0000

Yes!!

DebConf6,
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DebConf7,
http://valessiobrito.info/projetos/debconf7/yes_SL_DC7.png

GreaT! Open Source!

By: Nicu Buculei

Nicu Buculei — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 08:21:36 +0000

Yeah, I have an old example of the same: http://flickr.com/photos/nicubunu/68604281/

I did some noise at the time, got some people talking about it, including Bryce (who is at ODSL), and they learned, this year’s report is better.

By: Hugo Vincent

Hugo Vincent — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 04:18:10 +0000

I think the problem is most of these sorts of white papers will go through the marketing department and possibly even an (external) graphic designer before they’re published. So while the people who write the docs are (I’m sure) FOSS-people, marketing probably feels the need to “polish” them (and, ya know, replace technical content with buzz words and all the other good things marketing depts do). And the marketing people probably haven’t yet taken the time to learn how to get equally attractive output from the Free design tools - and lets be fair, even a few years ago it was difficult to get visually attractive results out of many of the Free tools. Inkscape, Scribus etc have matured enormously in the last 2-3 years.

Hugo.
p.s. Andy, did you get my email shortly after LCA? I didn’t hear back from you.

By: Andy Fitzsimon

Andy Fitzsimon — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 03:12:07 +0000

It was a micro-rant:

Promotional collateral for free software is best rendered by free software applications.

eat your own dogfood

Sorry to not have set the context.